Trade Targets Position Players 2018-19

[RollieTime]

Last offseason, we saw Stearns go out and pull off the biggest acquisition across baseball in trading for Christian Yelich.

 

After a very successful 2018 season, the Brewers will be looking to add to their list of controllable players for a long competitive window. Who could be a target this offseason that would provide a boost to our offense to help push us over the top?

 

One player I could see Stearns inquiring about is 3B Eugenio Suarez of the Reds. Suarez is a big right handed bat that would be in the middle of our lineup for many years to come. He will only be turning 28 next season and will be just entering his prime. He has 6 years left on his contract and is owed $59.75 million over the length of the contract. He also has a club option in 2025 for $15 million. His contract is very reasonable and is never more expensive than $11 million for any season.

 

Suarez would be a nice addition that could hit in the 4 hole to protect Yelich. This allows Shaw to bat 5th, play 2nd, and get a productive right handed bat between our two big lefties. Plus, Aguilar and Braun still have their everyday spots locked down. Braun can move into the two hole and Aguilar drops down to 5th or 6th depending on the day. The length and balance of the lineup could possibly be unmatched in the NL.

 

What trade would you like to see Stearns pull off prior to the 2019 season?

[pacopete4]

What trade would you like to see Stearns pull off prior to the 2019 season?

 

Go get Realmuto and Goldschmidt and win the whole thing. (half blue)

 

1. Cain- CF

2. Yelich- RF

3. Goldschmidt- 1B

4. Realmuto- C

5. Shaw- 3B

6. Braun- LF

7. Hiura- 2B

8. Arcia- SS

[HarveysWBs]

What trade would you like to see Stearns pull off prior to the 2019 season?

 

Go get Realmuto and Goldschmidt and win the whole thing. (half blue)

 

1. Cain- CF

2. Yelich- RF

3. Goldschmidt- 1B

4. Realmuto- C

5. Shaw- 3B

6. Braun- LF

7. Hiura- 2B

8. Arcia- SS

 

I love your (admittedly “half-blue) enthusiasm, but how exactly you think acquiring both Goldy and Realmuto while hanging onto Hiura would be possible sounds like a humdinger of a story. Make that a tragedy, since we’d have to watch all of our young arms (Burnes, Peralta, Woodruff) pitch in other uniforms for the better part of the next decade.

 

Don’t get me wrong, the Crew needs another impact bat or two to really have a good shot at a title, but eliminating one of the team’s core strengths (really THE core strength, besides defense) to fix the offense seems like a lateral move.

[KCBrewerfan34]

I would love Suarez, with all these trades it always comes down to what you have to give but we definitely are operating from a perceived wealth of pitching (and stocked in the minors).

 

 

GO DS

[pacopete4]

What trade would you like to see Stearns pull off prior to the 2019 season?

 

Go get Realmuto and Goldschmidt and win the whole thing. (half blue)

 

1. Cain- CF

2. Yelich- RF

3. Goldschmidt- 1B

4. Realmuto- C

5. Shaw- 3B

6. Braun- LF

7. Hiura- 2B

8. Arcia- SS

 

I love your (admittedly “half-blue) enthusiasm, but how exactly you think acquiring both Goldy and Realmuto while hanging onto Hiura would be possible sounds like a humdinger of a story. Make that a tragedy, since we’d have to watch all of our young arms (Burnes, Peralta, Woodruff) pitch in other uniforms for the better part of the next decade.

 

Don’t get me wrong, the Crew needs another impact bat or two to really have a good shot at a title, but eliminating one of the team’s core strengths (really THE core strength, besides defense) to fix the offense seems like a lateral move.

 

Oh my ask is completely unrealistic and would never happen. That’s for sure.

[Boomer5]

Realmuto is officially on the market. I don’t think we have enough to land him though.

[nate82]

Realmuto is officially on the market. I don’t think we have enough to land him though.

 

The Brewers don't unless they include Hiura and Burnes as the Braves can basically match any offer and beat any offer the Brewers put out there.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Realmuto is officially on the market. I don’t think we have enough to land him though.

 

The Brewers don't unless they include Hiura and Burnes as the Braves can basically match any offer and beat any offer the Brewers put out there.

 

Maybe. It all depends on how the Marlins value the prospects we are offering versus those the Braves offer. Where those prospects fall on national prospect ranking lists means absolutely nothing.

[NievesNoNO]

Suarez would be great, though I can't see it happening. They just signed him long term. I think the Reds are closer than people give them credit for. I don't think there's a Yelich type deal to be had this season. Those rarely come along.

 

I think Merrifield obviously makes sense and he's been discussed a lot on here already. Obviously Realmuto would be nice; I'm just not sure they be willing to part with what it would take.

 

I think a guy that could be interesting in a Travis Shaw sort of way might be Chad Pinder. No indication he'd be available and really no reason for the A's to trade the guy but his statcast metrics look nice and he's made some incremental improvements on some of his advanced stats (fangraphs) and possesses some versatility that the team has valued recently.

 

So far Stearns has made a tradition of coming up with guys that nobody really saw coming. I'd expect the same this off-season. Man, it's going to be a long wait til opening day.

[Smichaelis9]

A guy I’m looking at for a smaller deal is Luke Maile of the Blue Jays. He showed solid OBP skills this year and a 34.3% hard hit percentage on Fangraphs and 43% on Statcast from the left side. Not to mention being a top 10 receiving catcher in baseball http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php

 

This would be an ideal pairing with Pina for next year in my opinion...

[Jenkins5]

Think Burnes is past consideration in any deal with how great he pitched this season. Think he is in similar spot as Hader last off-season. Huira looks like real deal. With those two nearly untouchable. Any big deals appear difficult. Brewers have invested a lot in bringing in young talent but all those guys are rookie and A ball guys whose top values are still year or two away. Their system is really banking on this big wave of guys in the low levels.

 

Profar I think is a real solid choice who still may not have that huge of price tag. Finally had full year & love that he doesn’t K and still walks a ton! It was 9% Bb to 14% K. He flashed 20 HR power. Still only turning 26. He plays 1b, 2B, SS,3B and some OF and isn’t a liability out there. To me question is hit tool and he is basically the younger upgrade to Perez since he doesn’t K & he will take walks... two areas Hernan doesn’t excel at. I’ve always been on Profar wagon though as low risk high reward type player

[Oxy]

What would it take to get Nicholas Castellanos? On his last arby year next year.

 

Thames, Santana/Broxton and Anderson/Davies?

 

I'd want to try to get some younger prospects out of them too, perhaps Isaac Paredes and Wenceel Perez if we include Ray or Erceg?

[nate82]

What would it take to get Nicholas Castellanos? On his last arby year next year.

 

Thames, Santana/Broxton and Anderson/Davies?

 

I'd want to try to get some younger prospects out of them too, perhaps Isaac Paredes and Wenceel Perez if we include Ray or Erceg?

 

Castellanos took a huge step back last year defensively.

 

His advanced defensive metrics:

 

-19 DRS; -12.9 UZR; -12.3 UZR/150; -20 def WAR

 

Every single advanced stat says he is a bad OF maybe if he switches to LF he would be better but I wouldn't count on that. All of Castellanos value is in his offense and that is it.

 

If you trade for Castellanos he either has to play 1B or LF. Castellanos has some nice stats against LHP. He also has some decent OBP skills he did take 49 walks in 2018 when he was basically the only offensive threat on the Tigers.

 

Not sure what it would take but the Tigers are probably going to try to trade him like he is an OF and get at least one or two decent prospects for him. He is really a 1B which drops his value significantly.

[trwi7]

What would it take to get Nicholas Castellanos? On his last arby year next year.

 

Thames, Santana/Broxton and Anderson/Davies?

 

I'd want to try to get some younger prospects out of them too, perhaps Isaac Paredes and Wenceel Perez if we include Ray or Erceg?

 

What possible incentive would the Tigers have for that deal? They're not getting younger, they're not saving money. They're just replacing one player with different players.

[Oxy]

What would it take to get Nicholas Castellanos? On his last arby year next year.

 

Thames, Santana/Broxton and Anderson/Davies?

 

I'd want to try to get some younger prospects out of them too, perhaps Isaac Paredes and Wenceel Perez if we include Ray or Erceg?

 

What possible incentive would the Tigers have for that deal? They're not getting younger, they're not saving money. They're just replacing one player with different players.

 

Thames has no trade value, agreed. The other guys could provide value both next year and beyond, unlike Castellanos.

 

Castellanos wouldn't even be an everyday player for us--he'd be a soft platoon for Shaw at 3rd, split time with Braun and Aguilar and spell Yelich a couple times a month. He provides no value for the Tigers after next year and I don't think they are going to compete for anything meaningful so he seems like a likely guy they'd look to move. He destroys lefties

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

What would it take to get Nicholas Castellanos? On his last arby year next year.

 

Thames, Santana/Broxton and Anderson/Davies?

 

I'd want to try to get some younger prospects out of them too, perhaps Isaac Paredes and Wenceel Perez if we include Ray or Erceg?

 

What possible incentive would the Tigers have for that deal? They're not getting younger, they're not saving money. They're just replacing one player with different players.

 

Santana and Davies are both 25. How would they not be getting younger?

[Boomer5]

Castellanos is a brutal defensive player but a 850 hitter. Even with his flaws, you aren’t getting him for our usual trade suspects that we try and give away in every deal.

 

Thames: negative trade value

Anderson neural trade value

Davies: trade value but selling way low

Santana: I think he has some value as a third piece but we tried to trade him all last year.

Jesus: some minor trade value. Teams don’t value 1B/DH types at all.

[nate82]

Castellanos is a brutal defensive player but a 850 hitter. Even with his flaws, you aren’t getting him for our usual trade suspects that we try and give away in every deal.

 

Thames: negative trade value

Anderson neural trade value

Davies: trade value but selling way low

Santana: I think he has some value as a third piece but we tried to trade him all last year.

Jesus: some minor trade value. Teams don’t value 1B/DH types at all.

 

Castellanos has the same value as Jesus. Castellanos is not an OF he is a 1B/DH type. Castellanos was worse than Thames in the OF last year.

 

Davies for Castellanos would be a fair trade with the Tigers getting more value out of it than the Brewers would but it is close enough right now. Castellanos as a 1B/DH is equal to trade value in Jesus. The problem here is that the Tigers are going to want a younger player with more control for Castellanos. Davies is close to that but I would believe they would prefer someone who is in the minors versus someone who is already in the majors and has eaten up some of their cost controlled years.